CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-7513

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: Aug 22, 2018 | Modified: Oct 09, 2019
CVSS 3.x
5.4
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

It was found that Satellite 5 configured with SSL/TLS for the PostgreSQL backend failed to correctly validate X.509 server certificate host name fields. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof a PostgreSQL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate.

Weakness

The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Satellite Redhat 5.0 (including) 5.0 (including)
Satellite Redhat 5.1.1 (including) 5.1.1 (including)
Satellite Redhat 5.2 (including) 5.2 (including)
Satellite Redhat 5.3 (including) 5.3 (including)
Satellite Redhat 5.4 (including) 5.4 (including)
Satellite Redhat 5.4.1 (including) 5.4.1 (including)
Satellite Redhat 5.5 (including) 5.5 (including)
Satellite Redhat 5.6 (including) 5.6 (including)
Satellite Redhat 5.7 (including) 5.7 (including)
Satellite Redhat 5.8 (including) 5.8 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References